One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM

A portrait of life in America’s Rust Belt: Part Three

Part Three

By Eric London 29 August 2015

This is the third and concluding part of an on-the-spot report on social conditions in working-class areas hit hard by deindustrialization in the US state of Indiana. See part one and part two.

1937: The sit-down strike wave hits Indiana

Young people were not the only ones who raised historical questions in conversations with WSWS reporters. A common theme in discussions with autoworkers was the transformation of the trade unions from organizations that previously fought to advance the interests of workers into management organizations.

As one Marion stamping autoworker, Steve, told the WSWS, “In ’36 and ’37 the union wasn’t part of management!”

Another Indiana autoworker said: “Why was the union established in the first place? If you’re going to go along with the company, what’s the point of having a union? Now they say it’s ‘shared sacrifice.’ Years ago it wasn’t shared. Working conditions, health and safety, they were all put into play. We need someone to speak up for the workers. The point was to have someone for our side.”
Such sentiments were broadly expressed. Indeed, most autoworkers have a general understanding that the establishment of the UAW in 1935 and its recognition by the major auto companies in 1937 was the product of mass social struggles that often involved open class war.

Workers in Indiana played their own role in these struggles. When autoworkers in the central Indiana town of Anderson got wind that their fellow workers in Flint, Michigan had begun a sit-down strike in late 1936 against General Motors, support for joining the strike in the small town spread. On December 31, 400 workers occupied and stopped production at the Guide Lamp plant. Many autoworkers did not initially join the occupation, but most refused to reenter the plant out of sympathy with the strikers. GM locked its workers out the following day.

The local ruling elite had formed themselves into a right-wing “Citizens’ League” to crush the strike. On January 25, 1937, a crowd of several thousand was mobilized by GM and the Citizens’ League at the Granada Theater to attack strikers and their families. As the thugs spread through the town, GM personnel directors distributed liquor while police handed out clubs and rocks.

The mob came upon a union organizer named Charles Kramer and gave him a severe beating on the courthouse square while police officers stood by and watched. Once the mob had done a number on Kramer, the police carted him to jail.

Some time later, the company succeeded in reopening the GM plant, but with the auto industry shut down by the national strike, the scab workers had no reason to make car parts. Instead, workers learned that the scabs were producing blackjacks, long daggers and buttons that read “loyal employee.”

On February 11, the Citizens’ League mobilized its mob once more to attack a meeting of 1,000 autoworkers that was being held at the Crystal Theater to celebrate GM’s capitulation and the recognition of the UAW as the exclusive bargaining agent for workers. With autoworkers and their wives and children inside, the mob of vigilantes fired bullets through the windows of the theater. The implication was that the mob was prepared to massacre hundreds of workers and their families. Such events took place with some regularity.

Police stood by and watched the mob gather, refusing a request that the autoworkers’ children be escorted to safety. The workers gathered to discuss what to do next. Most were fed up with the treatment they had received by the company, the thugs and the police. Their suggestion was that the workers get their hunting rifles and shotguns and send a message of their own. Future UAW President Walter Reuther was at the meeting and intervened to prevent the workers from fighting back.

The workers decided that they were not going to let the mob ruin their celebration and the band played until the early morning hours. Eventually, the mob thinned out and no workers were harmed.
The great strike wave of the 1930s was a milestone in the development of the class struggle in the United States. Workers made important gains in living standards through the semi-insurrectionary sit-down plant occupations involving 140,000 autoworkers nationally.

The sit-down strikes took place in direct opposition to the old, craft-based American Federation of Labor (AFL). In fact, it was the workers themselves that initiated the auto sit-down strikes, not only against the orders of the AFL, but also against the leadership of the AFL’s rival union organization, the CIO. As Harvard economist and CIO official J. Raymond Walsh writes in his book C.I.O—Industrial Unionism in Action, “The CIO high command…tried in vain to prevent the strike; it was fed by deep springs of resentment among thousands of men against a corporation grossly derelict in its obligations.”

The period in which trade unions like the UAW (which became a part of the CIO) could serve as a vehicle to advance the interests of workers has long passed. The workers built the unions through heroic struggle, but today they have been transformed into organs of management used to police the workers and enforce the demands of the companies.

This process can be explained not by individual “bad” union leaders at the local or international level, but by underlying changes in the organization of the capitalist system. While the sit-down strikes had been spearheaded by socialists, the union movement as a whole was dominated by a right-wing bureaucracy that cemented a political alliance with the Democratic Party. This alliance was based on an acceptance of capitalist property relations—i.e., the exploitation of the working class by the owners of capital.

During the postwar period, under conditions of economic growth and the global domination of American capitalism, workers were still able to win significant gains through bitter social struggle, despite the anticommunism of the union leadership, which organized a purge of the most militant workers.

Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, the world economy underwent an unprecedented process of globalization, and American capitalism entered a period of economic decline. The nationalist and pro-capitalist trade union organizations responded by deepening their alliance with the corporations and with the capitalist system. To preserve the profits of the companies, they have collaborated in the destruction of wages and benefits, while suppressing all opposition among the workers they claim to represent.

The struggle to unite the working class internationally must take place on the basis of the repudiation of capitalism and in opposition to the nationalist trade unions. Only through the international unity of the working class do workers stand a chance of defeating the alliance of the multinational corporations and their trade union cronies.

Indiana as a hotbed of socialism

The foundations of the workers’ militancy and resolve in the strikes of the 1930s were laid by socialists and communists. In fact, central Indiana was a hotbed of socialist agitation. Mass meetings of thousands of workers greeted Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs at his regular appearances in the area in the first decades of the century.

Local historian William F. Munn spoke to the WSWS and provided newspaper clippings reporting on Debs’ speeches. In 1900, Debs spoke to a crowd of 3,000 people in Marion as part of his campaign for president.

In an article that appeared in the Marion-based Chronicle Tribune on November 5, 2004, Munn wrote that “Debs was a return visitor to the city. A Hoosier from Terre Haute, Debs had formed close ties in Marion through local Socialist leader John Kelley. Kelley, a prosperous local furniture dealer, had been instrumental in organizing the Marion Social Democratic Party.”

Munn writes that upon taking the stage before the throng of supporters, Debs “wasted no time in attacking his opposition.” He then quotes Debs, who told the audience, “Labor is bought and sold. Emancipate labor, and the badge of labor is dignity. The machine then will be the only slave.”
Debs went on to denounce the US government and President William McKinley for the brutal invasion of the Philippines during the Spanish-American war.

“War is the product of capitalism. What are we over in the Philippines for? We have committed enough murder in the name of civilization. I would say to the Filipino: we don’t want your islands. Set up your government.”

Debs and his socialist program received 21,374 votes in Indiana in the 1900 election. By 1912, Debs’ total had increased to 36,931. In 1912, socialists were elected to local office in the Indiana towns of Staunton, Shirley, Millersburg, Shelburn, Farmersburg, Spencer, Normal City and Diamond. Socialist newspapers like The Social Advance, The Issue, Indiana Socialist, The Marion Socialist, Free Press, and TheSocial Educator were published in cities and towns across the state with circulations in the thousands.

Debs spoke more than once in Marion during the 1900 campaign. On another occasion, the local bourgeois paper printed the headline: “Against the system—E.V. Debs makes the usual attack upon the competitive idea—pictures an ideal future—speaks to big audience.”

The paper then published much of Debs’ speech, which he delivered to a crowd of 1,300.
“The vital issue springs from private ownership of sources of production,” Debs said. “The hand tool of a century ago has expanded to a great machine. This tool is in the hands of the capitalist class which doesn’t use it. It is used by the working class which doesn’t own it. The capitalist demands his profit. Labor demands his wage. When profits are large, wages must be small. When wages are big, profits must be small. The capitalist and worker are apart. Their interests conflict.”

Later in the same speech, Debs told the crowd in Marion, “If I had the ownership of the sun and could shut it off, you’d die at my whim. The corporation that controls the workingman’s means of living controls the workingman. We have monopolies. We must either leave them and continue them for our masters, or we must take possession of them and operate them for the benefit of the people. The Republican Party proposes measures, but does not touch the burning issue. The Democratic Party puts forward ideas that are perfectly preposterous. It is either private ownership and slavery or collective ownership and freedom. I would rather vote for freedom and fail, than to vote for slavery and get it.”

Readers may be surprised to learn of the deep current of class struggle and revolutionary socialist politics that runs beneath the surface of social life in small town Indiana. But the history of places like Anderson and Marion are not exceptions—they are the rule, both in the United States and around the world.

The ruling class knows that the maintenance of its privileged existence depends on its ability to prevent workers and youth from learning about the history of the class struggle and drawing revolutionary socialist conclusions. The television channels, newspapers, universities—all controlled by the ruling elite—put forward an image of the United States as a country of social peace where the main divisions in society are not based on class, but race, gender and sexual orientation.

This conception is put forward most forcefully by the Democratic Party and the various organizations that support it. The pseudo-left backers of the Democrats, comprised largely of satisfied members of the upper-middle class, view the American working class—and in particular white workers—as backwards, racist and homophobic.

Roughly 90 percent of people in north-central Indiana happen to have white skin, which makes them no better and no worse than people whose skin happens to be a different color. What is clear from visiting the area and speaking to its residents is that the capitalists and financial speculators that have wreaked havoc on this area for a better part of the last half-century do not ask what race a worker is before shutting down his factory.

The overbearing stress and pressure that the working people of Kokomo, Muncie, Marion, and Anderson wake up to face on a daily basis are the products of an economic system—capitalism—whose sole purpose is to exploit their labor power for private profit.

Yet in the face of relentless personal and financial difficulties, there exists among broad sections of the population a very powerful and healthy sentiment that speaks volumes to the objectively revolutionary character of the working class in the United States and around the world.

On the one hand there is a profound anger—anger at the ruling class and their unions for profiting off of poverty, social misery and war. There is also a sense of yearning for something new—for a mass social movement that will rock bourgeois officialdom at its foundations and sweep tens of millions into a struggle for social equality.

Beneath all of this there exists a sentiment that has often proven deadly for the status quo and its defenders throughout history: There is a strong sense of impatience felt by the residents of Central Indiana and a conviction that things cannot remain the same. In all likelihood, these quiet towns will not remain quiet much longer.

Viva
La Raza Supremacy?

THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach
of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once
again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working
people."

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats
as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers,
stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which
has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in
order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”

Foreign-born
women gain 141,000 jobs, U.S.-born women lose 90,000

By PAUL BEDARD

(OBAMA: 8 YEARS OF
PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS!)

The surge in the numbers
of foreign-born women getting U.S. jobs at the expense of American-born women
expanded in August, continuing an eight-year trend.

"I
think that the business model of Wall Street is fraud," said Sanders.
"I think these guys drove us into the worst economic downturn in the
modern history of America and I think they're at it again. I believe that when
you have so few banks with so much power you have to ... break them up. That is
not Hillary Clinton's position."

OBAMA-CLINTONomics
is a simple device - Serve the super rich and pass the cost of their looting
and Wall Street crimes on to the backs of the last of the American
middle-class!

"Of course,
the wealth of the financial elite cannot come from nowhere. Ultimately, the
continual infusion of asset bubbles is the form taken by a massive transfer of
wealth, from the working class to the banks, investors and super-rich. The
corollary to rise of the stock market is the endless demands, all over the
world, for austerity, cuts in wages, attacks on health care and pensions."

“As a result, the share of wealth held by the richest
0.1 percent of the population grew from 17 percent in 2007 to 22 percent in
2012, while the wealth of the 400 richest families in the US has doubled since
2008.”

DEMOCRAT PARTY ofILLEGALS

WHICH
HAS MORE CONTEMPT FOR LEGALS, OUR BORDERS AND LAWS???

MEXICO
or the DEMOCRAT PARTY which funds the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA???

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats
as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers,
stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which
has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in
order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”

Foreign-born
women gain 141,000 jobs, U.S.-born women lose 90,000

By PAUL BEDARD

(OBAMA: 8 YEARS OF
PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS!)

The surge in the numbers
of foreign-born women getting U.S. jobs at the expense of American-born women
expanded in August, continuing an eight-year trend.

"I
think that the business model of Wall Street is fraud," said Sanders.
"I think these guys drove us into the worst economic downturn in the
modern history of America and I think they're at it again. I believe that when
you have so few banks with so much power you have to ... break them up. That is
not Hillary Clinton's position."

OBAMA-CLINTONomics
is a simple device - Serve the super rich and pass the cost of their looting
and Wall Street crimes on to the backs of the last of the American
middle-class!

"Of course, the
wealth of the financial elite cannot come from nowhere. Ultimately, the
continual infusion of asset bubbles is the form taken by a massive transfer of
wealth, from the working class to the banks, investors and super-rich. The
corollary to rise of the stock market is the endless demands, all over the
world, for austerity, cuts in wages, attacks on health care and pensions."

“As a result, the share of wealth held by the richest
0.1 percent of the population grew from 17 percent in 2007 to 22 percent in
2012, while the wealth of the 400 richest families in the US has doubled since
2008.”

"Because even though some 9 million new jobs were added to the U.S. economy from 2000 through 2014, about 18 million new immigrants, legal and illegal, entered the U.S. during that time, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. This, even as the native population also grew."

Viva
La Raza Supremacy? You will still get the tax bills for LA RAZA'S looting, crime tidal wave and anchor baby breeding for welfare!

THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach
of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once
again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working
people."

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats
as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers,
stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which
has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in
order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”

The surge in the numbers
of foreign-born women getting U.S. jobs at the expense of American-born women
expanded in August, continuing an eight-year trend.

New Bureau of Labor
Statistics info detailing August jobs shows that the number of U.S.-born women
16 and older with jobs declined by 90,000 and rose for foreign-born women by
141,000.

There are currently
59.258 million American-born working women compared to 10.028 foreign-born
working women.

Secrets last month reported that all job gains among women
since the 2007 recession hit went to foreign-born women workers.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY: PARTY of NO E-VERIFY, NO BORDERS and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party andits trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."

AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!

It started the day Obama moved into the White House and commenced the perpetration of his “hope & change”.

"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."

Wages for low-income workers collapsed under Obama

By Andre Damon 4 September 2015

With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people. Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have called for raising the federal minimum wage, while the Obama administration has made much ado about a set of trivial changes to miscellaneous work rules that it claims will significantly benefit low-income workers.

But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.

This reality was made clear in a report published Wednesday by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), which showed that, despite the reduction in the nominal unemployment rate and continued increases in productivity, workers’ wages fell sharply under the Obama presidency.
Overall, workers’ wages declined by four percent, after adjusting for inflation, between 2009 and 2014. But the lowest-paid workers saw the sharpest decline: those in the lowest-earning quintile had their wages fall by 5.7 percent, compared with a 2.6 percent decline for the top-earning quintile.
“Stagnant wages have become a fact of life for nearly all of America’s workers, but workers in lower-paying occupations are finding it especially tough to keep up with the rising cost of living,” said Christine Owens, executive director of the NELP, in a statement. “Not only are their paychecks not growing, but their purchasing power has shrunk considerably, and to a far greater extent than that of higher-wage earners.”

For workers in low-paying industries, including food preparation workers, janitors and cleaners, personal care aides, home health aides, maids and housekeeping cleaners, the drop was even sharper. The report notes, “Food preparation workers and cooks saw wage declines of 7.7 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively (amounting to roughly $1,622 and $2,185 less in income in 2014 than in 2009).”
Retail sales workers had their real median wages fall by 5 percent, personal care aides had their wages fall by 6.6 percent and janitors had their wages fall by the same amount.

To the extent that there has been a growth in the number of jobs in the US labor market, it has been overwhelmingly in low-wage sectors. A 2014 report by the NELP found that while US businesses had added 1.85 million low-wage jobs over the previous six years, they had eliminated 1.83 million medium-wage and high-wage jobs during the same time.

This trend is only set to continue in the coming period. The new report notes, “Five of the ten occupations that the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects will add the greatest number of jobs between 2012 and 2022 were at the bottom of the occupational distribution in 2014, with real median wages between $8.84 and $10.97.”

It added, “In addition, six of the 10 highest-growth occupations experienced real wage declines of 5.0 percent or more between 2009 and 2014, as compared to a 4.0 percent average decline across all occupations.”

The report notes, “The declines in real wages since the Great Recession continue a decades-long trend of wage stagnation for workers in the United States.” But Irene Tung, a senior policy researcher at the NELP told the New York Times that “the imbalance in the economy has become more pronounced since the recession.”

The same day as the NELP published its findings, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) published a report showing that while labor productivity has continued to grow since 2008, wages have fallen dramatically, with the entire benefit of the growth in productivity going to corporate shareholders and executives.

The EPI reported, “Net productivity grew 72.2 percent between 1973 and 2014. Yet inflation-adjusted hourly compensation of the median worker rose just 8.7 percent, or 0.20 percent annually, over this same period, with essentially all of the growth occurring between 1995 and 2002.”

The report added, “If the hourly pay of typical American workers had kept pace with productivity growth since the 1970s, then there would have been no rise in income inequality during that period.”
These figures express the consequences of the decades-long assault on workers’ wages and benefits that has been dramatically accelerated under the Obama administration.

Beginning in the 1970s, the US ruling class responded to the decline in the world position of American capitalism with a ruthless policy of deindustrialization and class warfare. With the full complicity of the trade unions, US corporations slashed millions of manufacturing jobs and used the resulting rise of mass unemployment to slash workers’ wages and benefits.

The US government responded to the 2008 financial meltdown by seeking to impose the entire burden of the crisis onto the working class. Even after the Obama administration funneled trillions of dollars into Wall Street banks, it made the expansion of low-wage manufacturing a precondition for providing funds to the automakers in the 2009 restructuring of GM and Chrysler. This set a precedent for slashing wages throughout the economy.

Now, seven years after the 2008 crisis, the US and world economy appear headed toward another financial crisis and slump. Under these conditions, the ruling class will only accelerate and deepen its offensive against workers, seeking once again to impose the burden of the capitalist crisis onto the working class.

"I think that the business model of Wall Street is fraud," said Sanders. "I think these guys drove us into the worst economic downturn in the modern history of America and I think they're at it again. I believe that when you have so few banks with so much power you have to ... break them up. That is not Hillary Clinton's position."

The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.

REPORT: ALIEN NATION…. push 2 for English

How the American people permitted the U.S. tax supported Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race” invade, occupy and loot America.

“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times

Giving Illegals Access to Welfare ‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says

70% of all invading ILLEGALS end up on welfare. Getting an American job with a stolen social security number is NEVER and issue!!!

“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. . ."

“Our friends at the Center for Immigration Studies just this week announced that their

analysis of census data shows that "the nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit

a record high of 42.1 million in the second quarter of this year -an increase of 1.7 million since the same quarter of 2014." This means that the noncitizens now comprise "13.3 percent of the nation's total population - the largest share in 105 years.”

Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.

While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”

“But any serious look at the latest figures reveals why Jim Clifton, head of the Gallup polling agency, has denounced the official unemployment rate as a “big lie” that largely ignores the continued prevalence of mass unemployment in the United States.”

“Obama’s trivial proposal on overtime pay is in line with the record of his entire presidency, which has sought to impose the full cost of the global capitalist crisis on the backs of the working class, while doing everything possible to protect and expand the wealth of the financial oligarchy that controls political life in the United States.”

UNIONS ASSAULT THE AMERICAN WORKER… just like the Democrat Party, Wall Street, LA RAZA Fascist Party, and Mexico

“In city after city, minimum wage laws have included union exemptions. The pro-business US Chamber of Commerce published an extraordinary report last year, “Labor’s Minimum Wage Exemptions: Unions as the ‘Low-Cost’ Options” which provided details about many of these ordinances.”

“After decades of betrayals, the unions are incapable of boosting membership through appeal to workers. Instead, with the backing of a host of pseudo-left supporters, the minimum wage ploy is being used to entice employers to install unions in their workplaces and funnel money from workers’ already meager paychecks into the bank accounts of the union executives.”

NAFTA AND THE DEATH OF A NATION

THE CONSPIRACY TO SURRENDER AMERICA’S BORDERS…. The partnership between Wall Street-owned Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the KOCH BROTHERS to surrender our borders and borders laws to assure a steady flood of illegals into America.

Keeping wages depressed and passing along the real cost of all that “cheap” labor through taxes on the American middle-class will keep their corporate paymasters happy, profitable and generous. There is not ONE billionaire that does not support Obama’s amnesty hoax to legalize Mexico’s looting.

Our national sovereignty and manufacturing base has been destroyed

through NAFTA and CAFTA which has resulted in totally open borders

culminating in the overwhelming of our infrastructure, hospital emergency

rooms and our educational institutions by the human onslaught which will

NAFTA, the BUSH, CLINTON(S), and OBAMA DEVICE TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS…. Is it working?

“This nation no longer is a democratic republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”

“Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned his colleagues in Congress that Americans will vote them out of office in November if they do not act this week to thwart President Barack Obama's plans to grant work permits and amnesty to up to eight million more Americans via executive fiat.”

In its crusade to protect and assist illegal immigrants, the Obama administration has accused an American company of discrimination for requiring employees to furnish proof that they are eligible to work legally in the United States.
You know the nation is in trouble when a U.S. business gets investigated by its own government for following the law. The case involves a Nebraska meat packing company that demanded workers to furnish proof of immigration status for the federal employment eligibility verification process. The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) went after the company, accusing it of engaging in employment discrimination.

In particular the DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices objected to non-U.S. citizens being “targeted” because of their citizenship status. “The department’s investigation found that the company required non-U.S. citizens, but not similarly-situated U.S. citizens, to present specific documentary proof of their immigration status to verify their employment eligibility,” the DOJ claims. This could constitute a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the feds assert, because its anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from making documentary demands based on citizenship or national origin when verifying an employee’s authorization to work.

With the feds breathing down its neck the business, Nebraska Beef Ltd, agreed to pay Uncle Sam a $200,000 civil penalty and establish an uncapped back pay fund to compensate individuals who lost wages because they couldn’t prove they are in the county legally. Additionally, the business will undergo “compliance monitoring,” which means big brother will be watching very closely. The head of the DOJ’s civil rights division explains that the agency is on a mission to eliminate “unnecessary and discriminatory barriers to employment” so workers can support their families and contribute to the U.S. economy.

This case is part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to helps illegal aliens in the U.S. Besides shielding tens of millions from deportation via an executive amnesty order, the president has also expanded the DOJ to help carry out part of this mission. It’s why the agency’s civil rights division has grown immensely under Obama. A few years ago Judicial Watch reported that the DOJ’s civil rights division launched a secret group to monitor laws passed by states and local municipalities to control illegal immigration. Because the measures are viewed as discriminatory and anti-immigrant by the administration, the DOJ has spent huge sums of taxpayer dollars to track them and legally challenge them as it did in Arizona.

The federal tentacles have reached deeply into the workplace. A few years ago the DOJ civil rights division, under the leadership of renowned illegal alien advocate Thomas Perez, launched a plan to eliminate tests that supposedly discriminate against minorities in the workplace. The administration defines them as having a “disparate impact,” a racial discrimination created by the various written exams. The tests disproportionately screen out people of a particular race, even though they “present the appearance of objective, merit-based selection,” according to the Obama DOJ.

Last year a federal auditdisclosed that the Obama administration was letting businesses that hire undocumented workers off the hook by drastically reducing fines and enforcement. During a three-year period the administration slashed by 40% the amount of fines collected from employers caught with illegal immigrants on their payroll, according to the probe which was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General. This inconsistent implementation hinders the government’s mission to prevent or deter employers from violating immigration laws, the DHS watchdog wrote in its report. Now the DOJ is taking it a step further by going after employers that try to ensure their workers are in the U.S. legally.

The Employment
Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Second Quarter of 2013